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Welcome, Misfits: A Plea to New Listeners of Our Radio Show

Brant & Sherri

Jul 23, 2018

Welcome, misfits.

Please have a seat at our table.

It’s not the fanciest. You’ll be getting “silverware”, but it’s plastic. One of the table legs is a little shorter than the others. And you’ll note that we, your table hosts, are not the coolest, not the most fashionable, not the loudest, and not the best-promoted or most advertised.

We are not here to sell you anything. We are not marketing Jesus to you. Honestly? I don’t even want your money. I have a full-time job. I don’t have to do radio (I don’t actually get paid for it) and at this point in my life, I’m not terribly needy of attention.

So what do we really want?

We want you.

The real you.

Not the cleaned-up you. Not the oh-now-we’re-talking-about-church-stuff version. We’re inviting the broken to our table, the ones who know they can’t put on a religious show anymore, because they’ve already been found out.

What, you don’t have a “daily quiet time” with the Bible every morning?

You’re not even sure what you think of this “Jesus thing”? You wonder how a man could be God? You wonder how anyone can say he’s the only way to salvation? You don’t understand why God would have rules for our sexuality? You don’t see how a loving God could allow tragedy?

Those are all good questions. We can talk about that. Or we can talk and laugh about other things, if you like, and get to those questions later. It’s up to you.